Anita Cobby killer Michael Murphy dies in jail

22/02/2019|2min

There are reports one of the five men who raped, brutalised and murdered Sydney nurse Anita Cobby has died in Long Bay jail overnight.
Authorities say Michael Murphy passed away due to cancer after being diagnosed in September 2018.
Murphy, his brothers Gary and Les along with Michael Murdoch and John Travers abducted the 26-year-old as she walked to her Blacktown home in Sydney's west from a night out in February 1986.
The horrific case stopped the nation, with the five men each receiving life sentences and their papers marked never to be released.
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